"The Confessions" by Alexander Zeldin, extracts

Alice was born in 1943. She’s an Australian woman and an activist. She is a life. What do we know of this life? What does her son, Alexander Zeldin? The British playwright and director used hours of interviews he conducted with his mother to create The Confessions. The portrait and fate of a child of the working class, who left her island to start again as a divorced woman in the London of the 1980s. As society changes around her, Alice’s loves form the throughline of a process of emancipation to which we can all relate. What do we know of each other? What do we want to know? A quest for confessions as sources for the construction of one’s own character... Such was the path Alexander Zeldin felt he had to follow. To make theatre outside of theatre, to search for other ways to look at the world within the lives of those around him.